Can rock n roll start a revolution?

I hear people like Lennon and Dylan and it almost makes me weep cuz I don't think theres anyone around today with a vision for world change using their art to motivate and educate. I would like to think punk could do something, but we spend too damn long arguing with one another.

What if a huge star pulled a Lennon and started writing songs about social consciousness and political reform? What would you think?

I would think that it is about time but I also think that most (not all) young people nowadays only care about themselves and not too much about what is going on in the world today. Just look at how many young people actually vote in the U.S. The percentage is very low. It seems that they either can't be bothered or just don't care.

I would think god fianlly answered my prayers and that I was so happy i would start dancing.
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It's been a long time coming. Unfortunately most of today's bands and artists are more bothered about their bank accounts.

Lennon's ideals made for catchy songs because they were very simplistic and, ultimately, highly unrealistic. I wouldn't even really classify them as "socially conscious" because they tended to deal in abstracts rather than discuss current events. The portion of Dylan's career that focuses on societal topics tends to get overblown to the point that people who have never heard Dylan think that's all he sang about. He was a musician first and foremost.

And actually, a lot of big-name bands and musicians have turned socially conscious in recent years. It's been in vogue for a while now. The problem is, once again, that the starry-eyed idealists keep wasting their time in the spotlight and accomplishing next to nothing while making the public ever more jaded. The first anti-war song you hear might seem novel, but six years' worth is just the sound of musicians hopping on the bandwagon. You get the sense they don't really mean it, even if some of them do.

Remember Live Earth? Wouldn't be surprised if you didn't since it was just one in a series of feel-good-but-do-nothing publicity stunts going on at the time, but for an event arranged to promote awareness of pollution and global warming, the sheer amount of garbage and waste at the event by both the attendees and performers was inexcusable.

Never gonna happen, with music, ...that is. See, the masses tried to get behind Lennon and Dylan, but the change wasn't about to take place through music then...or now. Look at today! Musicians tried , artists have tried , and even now actors / actresses have tried (like anybody's gonna listen there). Entertainment is just THAT , and it's gotten to the point now where if anyone in the field tries to make a statement , they actually lose credibility! You think Punk might have a shot? Not today my friend - Todays Punk has too much on it's plate by trying to sidestep the pop corporate machine that it's become. I'm sorry to have to bring the news that todays music ain't gonna start anything - 150 thousand genres , and nobody's home...

I'd say it'd be awesome.

Unless of course it's Pete Wentz

>_>

And the sad thing is that, in this day and age, people may one day consider him (or Gerard Way, or any emo singer) the next rock and roll prophet.